Professor Zheng graduated from Peking University (BA in International Relations, 1985; MA in Political Theory, 1988) and Princeton University (MA in Political Science, 1992; PhD, 1995).

X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor

Dean, School of Public Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Director, The Institute for International Affairs, Qianhai

Professor Zheng is Editor of The Asian Review of Political Economy (Springer-Nature) and Editor of China Policy Series (Routledge).

He was a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration of Peking University (1988-1990); Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (1997-2005); Professor and Research Director of the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham (2005-2008); Professor and Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (2008-2020). He was a Fellow of the US Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation (1995-1997) and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1998-2000).

Professor Zheng’s main research interests are international relations, China’s foreign policy, China’s domestic transformation and its external impact. He has authored and edited some one hundred books, including more than a dozen monographs in English. He has published numerous research papers in academic journals.

Professor Zheng has been selected as the Top 2% of Scientists ranked by Stanford University and Elsevier in 2024.

Latest English interviews with Professor Zheng Yongnian:

Trade war, Taiwan question and AI dominance（2024-11-16）

Professor Zheng shares with ShanghaiEye his insights on key issues in China-US relations as the US is about to elect a new president.

Prof. Zheng Yongnian discusses diverse democracy, diverse civilization (2023-3-23）

"China has found and developed its own form of democracy, which fits best its own civilization, cultural and national conditions," Professor Zheng Yongnian of the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen said at the second International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values on Thursday.

Zheng Yongnian: The commonality and characteristics of Chinese modernization （2023-03-04） 

Professor Zheng shared his views on the commonality and characteristics of Chinese modernization.

TED: Is China's reform dead?| Understanding China (2020-11-20)